| !Action Pact! | 1981 | 1986 | — |
| 13th Chime | 1981 | — | — |
| 14 Iced Bears | 1985 | 1991 | — |
| 16 Guns | 1982 | June 1985 | — |
| 1919 | 1980 | — | — |
| 3 | 1988 | 1989 | — |
| 808 State | 1988 | — | — |
| A Flock of Seagulls | 1980 | — | — |
| A Reprisal | 1983 | — | — |
| A Witness | 1982 | 1989 | — |
| A.R. Kane | 1986 | 1994 | — |
| ABC | 1980 | — | English 80s pop group |
| Above the Ruins | 1984 | 1986 | — |
| Academy 23 | 1989 | 1999 | — |
| Acid Attack | 1980 | — | — |
| Acid Reign | 1985 | — | — |
| Active Minds | 1986 | — | — |
| Actives | 1981 | 1987 | — |
| Aerial FX | 1980 | 1986 | — |
| Age of Chance | 1985 | 1992 | — |
| Alabama 3 | 1989 | — | UK dance/rock band aka A3 |
| Alien Sex Fiend | 1982 | — | — |
| All About Eve | 1984 | 2004 | — |
| Amnesia | 1988 | — | — |
| Anarka & Poppy | 1982 | 1984 | — |
| Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe | 1988 | 1990 | — |
| Androids of Mu | 1980 | 1983 | — |
| Andy Scott’s Sweet | 1985 | — | — |
| Anihilated | 1982 | — | — |
| Animals That Swim | 1989 | — | — |
| Anorexic Dread | 1983 | 1985 | — |
| Another Sunny Day | 1987 | 1992 | — |
| Anthrax | 1980 | — | — |
| Anti-System | 1981 | — | — |
| Antidote | 1986 | 1986 | — |
| Antisocial | 1981 | 1984 | — |
| Arbitrater | 1986 | — | — |
| Arcadia | 1985 | 1986 | — |
| Art of Noise | 1983 | 2000 | — |
| Ash | 1989 | — | Northern Ireland alternative rock band |
| Asia | 1981 | — | UK progressive rock band |
| Athletico Spizz 80 | 1980 | 1981 | — |
| Atom God | 1988 | 1993 | — |
| Avenger | 1982 | — | — |
| Axegrinder | 1985 | — | — |
| Azagthoth | 1985 | 1987 | — |
| Aztec Camera | 1981 | — | 80/90's UK Group |
| Balaam and the Angel | 1984 | 1989 | — |
| Bang Bang Machine | 1989 | 1996 | — |
| Barbed Wire | 1984 | — | — |
| Bark Psychosis | 1986 | — | — |
| Bashful Alley | 1980 | 1984 | — |
| Battle Zone | 1989 | 1994 | — |
| Beats International | 1989 | 1992 | — |
| Benediction | 1988 | — | UK death metal |
| Bette Davis & the Balconettes | 1989 | — | — |
| BFG | 1985 | — | — |
| Biff Bang Pow! | 1983 | 1991 | — |
| Big Audio Dynamite | 1984 | — | — |
| Big Country | June 1981 | — | — |
| Blackmayne | 1985 | — | — |
| Blaggers ITA | 1988 | 1994 | — |
| Blitz | 1980 | 2007 | UK punk band |
| Blitzkrieg | 1980 | — | UK heavy metal band |
| Blood & Roses | January 1982 | 1986 | — |
| Blood Money | 1984 | 1987 | — |
| Blue Murder | 1988 | 1994 | heavy metal group |
| Blyth Power | 1983 | — | — |
| BMX Bandits | 1985 | — | — |
| Bob | 1986 | 1992 | — |
| Bolt Thrower | 1986 | 2016 | English death metal |
| Bomb the Bass | 1987 | — | — |
| Bone Orchard | 1983 | 1986 | — |
| Bow Wow Wow | 1980 | 1983 | English 1980s new wave band |
| Box of Frogs | 1983 | 1987 | — |
| Breathe | 1984 | 1991 | UK 80s pop group |
| Broccoli | 1989 | 1998 | — |
| Broken Bones | 1983 | — | — |
| Broken English | 1987 | 1991 | — |
| Bronski Beat | 1983 | 1995 | — |
| Bros | 1988 | 1991 | 1986–1992 UK band |
| Brutal Attack | 1980 | — | UK, Political, Patriotic |
| Burial | 1989 | — | — |
| Carcass | 1985 | — | British grindcore/technical death metal |
| Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine | 1988 | August 1997 | — |
| Cathedral | 1989 | 2013 | British doom metal band |
| Chariot | 1983 | — | — |
| Chateaux | 1981 | 1986 | NWOBHM |
| China Drum | 1989 | 2001 | English punk rock band |
| Chumbawamba | 1982 | 2012 | — |
| Cindytalk | 1982 | — | — |
| Circle of Sin | 1983 | 1984 | — |
| Class War | 1986 | — | — |
| Click Click | 1982 | — | — |
| Coil | 1982 | 13 November 2004 | UK cross‐genre industrial group |
| Colourbox | 1982 | 1987 | — |
| Combat 84 | 1981 | 1984 | — |
| Concrete Sox | 1984 | 2013 | — |
| Condemned 84 | 1980 | — | — |
| Conflict | 1981 | — | — |